Ženski „glumački tekst” i njegova „arhivska groznica

• Published in: Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne no. 11; pp. 55 - 70
• Main Author: Čale Feldman, Lada
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Croatian
• Published: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza 2016; Adam Mickiewicz University
• Subjects: Language and Literature Studies; Studies of Literature; Neva Rošić; archive; gender performativity; acting; feminist criticism
• ISSN: 2084-3011; 2450-2731

The discussion of the ways one conceives of and reflex upon the procedures of archiving the opusof actresses active in the socialist period represents one of the urging tasks of both theatre studiesand feminist criticism in Croatia, given the relative scarcity of interest for this area of researchwithin Croatian theatre academia. This study presents the results of a research done on the work ofone of the leading Croatian actresses after WWII, Neva Rošić, which mostly rely on the discourseanalysis of theatre reviews, interviews, personal letters, articles written by the actress herself andother media reports on her major successes on the stage. A whole array of sources is thus summonedto corroborate the thesis that the female acting practice in this period, belonging as it doesto the poetics of impersonation, could figure as an interesting ground for the analysis of both theissues of female acting authorship, and the cultural construction of gender norms, as well as themeans and outcomes of their performative subversion.